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Obituaries


Fairfield Recorder newspaper
December 18, 2008 




Carmen Angelina (Guerra) Silva

Graveside services will be held next week for Carmen Angelina Silva, 92, of 
Fairfield who died Sunday, Dec. 14.

Mrs. Silva was born in Clifton, Arizona, on March 28, 1916 to Manuel and Emilia 
Guerra.

Her father was a concert violinist and later moved the family to San Diego, 
California where he toured with an orchestra from Baja to Mexico.

She married George Silva on Sept. 24, 1938, in Phoenix, Arizona where the couple 
settled.

Mrs. Silva was active in her children's activities including Arizona Horse 
Lovers Club.

She served as president of the Alpha Delta Pi Mother's Club and began teaching 
piano after her oldest children left for college.

Mrs. Silva was also active in the Arizona State Music Teachers Association, the 
National Guild of Musicians and the Phoenix Piano Teachers Association.

After her husband passed away in 1978, she moved to Rockwall and continued to 
teach piano along with her daughter Christy.

She then moved to Prescott, Arizona in 1985 where she continued teaching for 11 
years alongside her oldest daughter, Grace.

Mrs. Silva once again returned to Rockwall and resumed teaching piano with her 
daughter Christy and served as an officer for the Rockwall Music Teachers 
Association for two years.

After Christy and her family moved to Fairfield, Mrs. Silva retired from 
teaching and in 2001 she also moved to Fairfield.

Visitation will be held from 3 to 6 p.m. on Wednesday at Griffin-Roughton 
Funeral Home in Fairfield.

Graveside services will follow at St. Francis Cemetery on Monday, Dec. 22, in 
Phoenix, Arizona.

Mrs. Silva is survived by her daughter, Grace Hicks and husband Paul of 
Prescott, Arizona, Shirlee Ramage and husband Steve of Rockwall, and Christy 
Howerton and husband Rick of Fairfield; grandchildren, Mary Hicks, Eileen Lieby, 
Dr. Paul W. Hicks, Dr. Scott Hicks, James, Michael and Andrea Silva, Stephanie 
Howard and Angelina Howerton; and great-grandchildren, Braden, Drew, Charles, 
and Colin Hicks, and Gavin and Grayson Howard.

Memorials may be made to Carmen Silva Junior Piano Scholarship care of Yavapai 
Symphony Guild, PO Box 2980, Prescott, AZ 86302.

Arrangements were made by Griffin-Roughton of Fairfield.